Thank you to everyone who recently participated in our 2021 Learning Trends Survey. We had 136 respondents from a wide variety of industries.
We used the survey results to create our 2021 Learning Trends Report. This year’s report helps us acknowledge and evaluate the setbacks and the advances we’ve experienced so that we can address the root issues affecting today’s learners, create meaningful solutions tomorrow, and forge a new path forward.
TiER1ers, Zac Ryland and Walter Warwick, PhD, summarize the results and share their analysis of the data. You can access the report here.
Zac and Walter discussed the results even further in our webinar, 2021 Learning Trends: The Path Forward. You can view the webinar recording here.
About the Learning Trends Report
To gather our data, we sent a 17-question survey to TiER1 clients and other learning professionals who subscribe to our newsletter. We also posted a link to the survey across our social media channels. The survey was open from 1/14/2021 to 2/15/2021 and had 136 responses. When appropriate, we compared the results to our 2020 reports. (Reports prior to 2020 were published by Bottom-Line Performance, Inc., which was acquired by TiER1 Performance in August 2019.)
More than 55% of respondents are at the manager, director, or VP level in their organization, and most are in roles directly related to training, talent, or learning. Nearly 30% of respondents are instructional designers or trainers. The remainder of respondents consider themselves consultants or external training vendors. This represents an 11% increase in manager/director/VP respondents over last year with corresponding decreases in the percentage of ID/trainer roles and consultant roles responding.
What’s in the Report
We asked survey participants 17 questions:
- How often do you include target audience in your training design process?
- Which of the following method(s) do you use to include your target audience in the training design process?
- How often do you include target audience in your training development process?
- Which of the following process(es) do you use to include your target audience as part of the training development process?
- What methods will you (or your organization) use to deliver training in 2021?
- What learning trend(s) or delivery method(s) are you most excited about for 2021?
- What process(es) does your team employ in the design and/or development of your assets?
- What knowledge and/or skills do members of your target audience need to have to be successful in their jobs?
- What challenges do your target learners face that makes it difficult for them to build the knowledge/skills they need to be successful?
- What challenges do you face when you try to help these learners build the necessary knowledge/skills?
- If you could improve one thing about learning and performance and/or training at your organization in 2021, what would it be?
- What are the organizational opportunities that create your highest demand for learning and performance?
- How is your team structured in relation to the organization?
- On average, how would you rate your typical relationship with your business sponsors?
- On average, how aligned are your learning and performance efforts with your organization’s overall strategic initiatives?
- How successful would you consider your 2020 learning and performance efforts?
- What are the key factors that determine whether your learning and performance efforts will be successful within your organization or not?
Click Here to View the 2021 Learning Trends Report
Click Here to Watch the 2021 Learning Trends Webinar
Want to learn more? View our webinar, 2021 Learning Trends: The Path Forward, hosted by TiER1ers Zac Ryland, Walter Warwick, PhD, and Sarah Ehrnschwender.
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